Lower East Side Stitches
Lower East Side Stitches Playing by ye ol' loud, fast rules, Lower East Side Stitches (from New York's Lower East Side, not Norwood), will invade the Queen City in support of their latest, confusingly titled effort, STAJA98L.E.S., on Ng Records. The Punk quintet tour constantly, having played shows with bands like Murphy's Law and…
Press Clips: Ward, Something’s Wrong With ‘The Enquirer’
There's a great line about journalism that says newspapers should comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. The saying captures perfectly the media's traditional role of civic watchdogs who look out for the little guy. (We use part of the saying as the tag line for our Burning Questions news column.) But as major newspapers,…
Doomsday’s Silver Lining
Hello, friend. If you have come to this space hoping to find glib observations on contemporary life, I fear you shall be disappointed. If you come here in search of the "quipster" who has long and weekly felt the need to solicit your precious approval through his cynical Sarcas-O-Grams, he no longer dwells here. If…
News: North College Hill Student Slows Slave Trade
Jymi Bolden Nicholas Lawson, North College Hill High School senior, has organized a benefit to raise funds to free African slaves. Dozens of African women and children wait and watch while an American man hands cash over to a slave trader. The trader counts his money — 50,000 Sudanese pounds, or $50, for each…
News: A ‘Clash of Generations:’ Fact or Fiction?
Generation X has been stereotyped by the media as a generation of unmotivated slackers. Scott Wert says he wants to change that — at least in the workplace. Wert is teaching a class, which he claims will help bridge the gap between Generation Xers and baby boomers in the workplace that clash because of differences…
Diet and Health: The Cook Isn’t the Fat Guy
As I said in my first article about the name, Alternative Medicine, much of what we see as alternative is not new. The concept of food as medicine goes back about 5,000 years, if not longer. Diet in America has most popularly been altered in an attempt to acheive weight loss. I say in an…
Still Not Talking
For three weeks running, Cincinnati City Councilman Tyrone Yates has refused to answer CityBeat's questions regarding the Citizens Police Review Panel that he proposed and council passed Jan. 21. The panel will be selected by the city manager and will review police misconduct investigations, making recommendations to the city manager. The proposal was a modified…
Diner: So Long, Bohemia
Just after my first taste of the sophisticated flavor of the Goi Cuon at Song Long, I realize — with silent, embarrassed shock — that I've become a yuppie. Meanwhile, my dining partner, Steve, continues talking. He's telling me that today his boss introduced him to the VP, and said, " 'Steve here has great…
Cincinnati Federation of Teachers President Questions: Is Hope the Answer?
Ever since Riverside-Harrison Elementary School closed 17 years ago, area parents have wanted another neighborhood school for their children. But the new Riverside Academy set to open this fall as a Hope Academy charter school, which Cincinnati Councilman Phil Heimlich helped recruit, might not be the solution parents hoped for, Cincinnati Federation of Teachers (CFT)…
Street Cops
Old sayings are the best sayings. They seem to sum up so many things so well. This column's title says a lot, and it describes the incident — nay, the travesty — that police say occurred Oct. 30 on Miami University's Oxford campus. Supposedly on that pre-Halloween date, some hate-mongers entered the Center For Black…
Panned Pizza
In his best-selling book, Conversations with God, Book 2, author Neale Donald Walsch says God told him most of the world's problems would be solved if we adopted the concept of visibility. I'm not from the Pacific Northwest, but I think what God means is it would save a lot of trouble if everyone's cards…
